Smithsonian Magazine: June 2007
Features
Reconstructing Petra
Two thousand years ago, it was the capital of a powerful trading empire. Now archaeologists are piecing together a more complete picture of Jordan's compelling rock city
By Andrew Lawler
Prize Pictures
Our photo contest attracted thousands of photographers from 86 nations. And the winners are...
By Smithsonian magazine
Jewel of the Tetons
They were the prime movers behind the great Wyoming park. This summer, the Rockefellers are donating a final 1,106 acres, a spectacular parcel to be open to the public for the first time in 75 years
By Tony Perrottet
Into the Fold
Physicist Robert Lang has taken the ancient art of origami to new dimensions
By Beth Jensen
Scripture Alfresco
In northeastern Romania, 450-year-old paintings on the exterior of monasteries and churches-now open again for worship-tell vivid tales of saints and prophets, heaven and hell
By Andrew Curry
The Ethiopia Campaign
After fighting neglected diseases in Africa for a quarter century, former president Jimmy Carter takes on one of the continent's biggest killers malaria
By Robert M. Poole
Departments
Indelible Images
Endless Summers
For almost 50 years, surfing legend LeRoy Grannis has been shooting the curl
By Owen Edwards
Points of Interest
Fields of Dreams
To help revive his North Dakota hometown, a former high-school principal created giant sculptures to grace a stretch of prairie highway
By Reed Karaim
Presence of Mind
Risks and Riddles
The Soviet Union was a puzzle. Al Qaeda is a mystery. Why we need to know the difference
By Gregory F. Treverton
Wild Things
Wild Things: Life as We Know It
Great sharks, manakins and dino digs
By Smithsonian magazine
Interview
Interview: May Berenbaum
On the role of cellphones, pesticides and alien abductions in the honeybee crisis
By David Zax
The Object at Hand
Flights of Fancy
Leslie Payne's flying machines soared, if only in his imagination
By Owen Edwards
Books
The American Home Front: 1941-1942
By Alistair Cooke, Atlantic Monthly Press, $24.00
By Winston Groom
